Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.

My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.

When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.